PERTHYN

FUTURE DIRECTIONS is a young people’s programme from MTW in partnership with Hijinx that explores how opera can become a powerfully expressive form for people of all backgrounds and identities. Working in collaboration with professional artists, the young, neurodiverse group of people devise and make a new opera, exploring their ideas and learning from and inspiring each other and the supporting artists. For this project, Music Theatre Wales has brought together Theatre Maker and Dramaturg Jain Boon, Music Maker Mari Mathias, Singer Llio Evans and Film Maker Gavin Porter to work together with the young participants to create a new and original work in three movements. The resulting piece, Perthyn, is an opera in music, text, movement and film entirely built on the ideas and creativity of the participants, which carries a strong message from the young people for all of us to contemplate. MTW want to know what people think of our work, to help us develop it in the future. Future Directions is a way we can learn alongside young people, and increase our understanding of neurodiversity, which helps us to create opera that everyone can enjoy. We are asking everyone who has watched Perthyn to answer these questions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gMOm...